Our Messy Emotions and Being Creative
Does being calm or happy help us be creative? Does feeling sad or anxious always inhibit creative thinking? Some researchers find that “mixing together both positive and negative emotions can…
The Creative Mind
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Take A Shower or Watch Cows To Be Creative
Do you get creative ideas in the shower? Do you have any routines or schedules to help encourage your creative thinking and work? Many artists do. But E. B. White (Stuart…
Psychological Androgyny and Creative People
“A writer should be woman-manly or man-womanly…” Virgina Woolf Creativity researcher Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi explains that psychological androgyny refers to “a person’s ability to be at the same time aggressive and…
Does Being Neurotic Help Us Be More Creative?
Woody Allen admits he has “a lot of neurotic habits. I don’t like to go into elevators, I don’t go through tunnels, I like the drain in the shower to…